In the direction of Chengyang, the Wei army retreated without a fight and quickly retreated into Chengyang.

The six-fingered soldiers crossed the Jishui without bloodshed, and forced the Wei army to retreat with the tactics of attacking the east and the west with the sound of the bright face, and the whole army quickly built a camp on the north bank of the Jishui and consolidated the pontoon bridge.

The soldier's ability to move and march can be used by 10,000 people as 20,000 people, which is an indispensable quality for defeating the strong with the weak.

But now that the military strength of Sishang is already superior, Dr. Chengyang wants to hold Jishui, and in the face of the mobility of Sishang Yishi, he needs at least three times as many troops to defend.

Since there is no one, then after the six fingers made the posture of repairing the pontoon bridge and dividing the troops to cross the river, the retreat of Dr. Chengyang became an inevitability.

There is time, the six fingers are not in a hurry, and the Wei army will not be able to support the Chengyang direction for at least a month and a half.

Wei Guo sent the main general Gou Cheng to negotiate neutrality with the Mo family, which was also to show his attitude that he would definitely not send troops, because Wei Guo knew very well that he was caught between Wei and Mo, and if he really waded into this troubled water, they would be finished first.

In order to show that he had absolutely no idea of participating in the rebellion of the Song State, the Qi State did not gather troops in the southwest, coupled with the previous provocation of the Mo family in the direction of Jucheng, which also made the Qi State dare not mobilize the army to leave Linzi and the southeast.

It was with six fingers that he was able to calmly build a camp, strengthen the pontoon bridge, stabilize the rear, and then besiege Chengyang, and use the fiercest artillery siege to deter the various vassal states.

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The southern line, Yinyang, or Zhaoling, the Luohe River of later generations.

The army of the state of Chu was assembled here.

The reorganized Chen Caizhi division became the main force of infantry in this battle against Wei and Han.

The Chu army and the Wei and Han armies in the other directions seemed to have a tacit understanding and did not move.

Wei Han and Chu both tacitly wanted to control this war within a limited scope, and since they wanted to control it within a limited range, they had to revert to the method similar to the war in the Spring and Autumn Period.

If this somewhat retro method of warfare is not adopted, the situation is likely to be out of control, making the battle situation beyond the expectations of Wei, Chu and Han.

The king of Chu did not want the war to expand, but hoped that it would be a battle about the division of Zheng land.

Wei Han thought the same way.

If not, it would be a battlefield that stretched for hundreds of miles from Lushan to Xu, and the cooperation of the main attack and feint attack of the flank Chinese army would involve almost half of the military forces of Wei, Han and Chu.

This may be unacceptable to the state of Chu for "snipe and clam competing for fishermen's profits".

This time, the state of Chu assembled about 40,000 field troops, not including the supporting peasant soldiers.

Among them, there are also some elite Chu King Cheguang cavalry chariots, and some archers who are quite capable of means.

At this time, under the gunpowder use technology, the archers of Wei, Han and Chu were all stronger than their musketeers, but the number of elite archers was not much, and it would consume a lot of them once they were used, which was not something that countries could support.

It takes at least four or five years to train such a group of qualified archers.

It is true that archers who have been trained for four or five years are better than arquebusiers, but in the face of the three-month training cycle of arquebuses, it is becoming more and more difficult for archers to adapt to the increasingly intense world.

Now the Chu army is building a barracks, and as the initiator of the campaign, they must choose to take the initiative to attack.

But before the attack, the camp must be prepared, and the artillery cavalry and a part of the sappers supported by the Mo family must also be waited.

Several field artillery companies supported by the Mo family had already arrived at Chendi, while the cavalry numbering about 4,000 or so was still on the march.

The smaller the number, the faster the march, and the artillery set off first, and it was easy to assemble with a small number.

This time, the state of Chu was not a gathering of famous generals, mainly some nobles in the core of the king of Chu, and the king of Chu did not personally command the battle, but handed over the full power of the battle to the big Sima who returned after the collapse of the talks with Wei Han.

The king of Chu remained in Chendi, dealing with a series of subsequent diplomatic crossings.

Since the king of Chu chose Luyang and other directions to take the way of garrisoning troops and not attacking, he also made it clear that the bottom line of Chu State was not to want the entire territory of Zheng State, but just to want Xu and other cities that were vital to Chu State.

The king of Chu is still very confident in fighting against Wei and Han this time, and the field troops that Wei and Han can gather are only fifty or sixty thousand, which is about the same as that of Chu in terms of number.

But in terms of quality, there are not many elite soldiers.

The weakest cavalry of the Chu State, with the thousands of irregular cavalry supported by the Mo family, was at least able to compete with the cavalry of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The number of field artillery was also superior to that of Wei Han with the support of the Mo family.

The Mo family has already agreed to the Chu State to send troops to Chengyang, and according to the previous agreement, it should have been sent now, and the Wei and Han sides definitely don't want this battle to be out of control.

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The state of Chu is under the north of Cai.

A column of cavalry was marching along a better road in Chu.

The cavalry brigade of Shu Prisoner Mi, together with the other two cavalry brigades on active duty, served as the main cavalry force to support the Chu State this time.

They set off a little later than those sappers and artillerymen who were smaller in number.

However, on this section of the road from Sishang to Xia Cai, Shu Prisoner Mi felt like there was not much difference from marching on Si.

Although the Huai River line belongs to the Chu State, in fact, the influence of Sishang is greater.

The essence of Chu is in Jianghan, and the capital of Si is in Pengcheng, so the influence on Huaisi is naturally greater than that of the Mo family.

Coupled with the rescue in Sishang after the catastrophe that year, the cavalry felt a lot of "pot slurry" along the way.

In terms of logistics, it is also extremely easy to supply along the Huai River, and the speed of the daily march can be maintained to the maximum along the way, and there is no need to use the state of the enemy to do all kinds of vigilance, and the speed of the march is extremely fast.

After Xia Cai, the feeling is not the same as in the Huai River Valley.

Although the people are still very supportive and are not afraid of the Mo family's team, there are many different eyes after all.

Shu Prisoner Mi has been in a good mood these days, not only because of the dream of making meritorious contributions, but also because his sister is surveying and mapping maps in the Chu State.

There was news before that the Chu State had detained a lot of ink people who were active in the Chu State, although the prisoner was sure that the Mo family could solve this matter, but the blood was thicker than water, and he was still a little worried in his heart after all.

After he received the order to cooperate with the Chu army to punish Wei Han, this worry was completely put down.

Since he cooperated with the Chu State, then presumably those ink people who were detained in the Chu land would not be embarrassed by the Chu people, and his sister would be safe.

The mood was very good all the way, and everyone sang all the way, while keeping the formation neat, someone would make a tune from time to time, and soon hundreds of people would sing together.

The only thing is that when passing through the Chu people's settlements or cities, these cavalrymen from Sishang will shut up, but some people who are familiar with Chu will sing some Mojia songs with the army.

In recent years, there have been more and more people in Sishang who are proficient in Chu language, and Shu Zhu Mi doesn't know what this means, but he only knows that more and more officers and cadres have begun to learn Chu Yin in recent years.

In fact, since the Mo family determined the strategy of determining Chu and determining the world, this kind of training for Chu Yin has begun.

Every year, a large number of new Chu people come to Sishang, and every year more Sishang-born Moshangs go to Chu.

If Sishang needs it now, at least about 8,000 cadres who are proficient in Chu Yin or above can be organized.

This time, those who followed the cavalry to the Chu State also had some Chu people or people who were proficient in Chu Yin, and they wanted to carry out propaganda along the road.

It was fine along the Huai River, but once it passed Xia Cai, the local officials and doctors in Chu were very afraid of the Mo family's propaganda, and the repeated protests were not very smooth, but they were still carried out with difficulty.

After arriving at Chendi, the king of Chu personally sent people to signal the Mo family not to promote the morality of the Mo family in Chu State, in order to maintain the cooperation between the two sides at this time, and the Mo family finally gave up propaganda for the time being.